quotations about luck
The concept of luck is actually quite complex and thus should not be dismissed as simply superstition or sloppy thinking. In a basic sense, luck is synonymous with chance. When individuals presume the workings of luck in their lives, though, they often "spin" the effects of luck to be positive or negative, as in having good luck or bad luck. Furthermore, although the presumption of luck (or chance) implies that events are beyond human control, much of the preoccupation with luck involves performing actions that are hoped to influence (namely improve) luck. Now, mix in this variable: that luck completely contradicts the theologies of Christianity and Buddhism.... Obviously, something quite strange is going on.
JASON SLONE
Theological Incorrectness : Why Religious People Believe What They Shouldn't
I have no luck anymore. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
The Old Man and the Sea
Lucky people should hide. Pray the days of wrath do not visit their home.
JOSEPHINE HART
Damage
Good luck is often with the man who doesn't include it in his plans.
ANONYMOUS
Trust your luck ... but don't forget to put out your nets!
LLOYD ALEXANDER
Taran Wanderer
If it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't have no luck at all.
ALBERT KING
"Born Under a Bad Sign", Born Under a Bad Sign
The powerless worship Luck and Fate.
MASON COOLEY
City Aphorisms
Luck is the residue of design.
ARAB PROVERB
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
JUVENAL
attributed, Day's Collacon
You can create your own luck just like a cloud can create its own rain. You create your own luck by the way you act, think, feel, and talk. If these ingredients you're using to create your luck are distorted, then what will follow is bad luck all the way, like a thunderstorm. But if you're especially careful to watch how you think, then the sweet aroma of good luck will rain upon you almost everywhere you go.
MARK BENEDICT
The Method of Selling
Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.
RAY KROE
attributed, "The McDonald's Mystique", Fortune Magazine, Jul. 4, 1988
You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help.
BILL WATTERSON
It's a Magical World: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection
Well, well, my boy, if good luck knocks at your door, don't you put your head out at window and tell it to be gone about its business, that's all.
GEORGE ELIOT
Adam Bede
The devil's children have the devil's luck.
ENGLISH PROVERB
There is no man whom luck or fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
CARDINAL IMPERIALI
attributed, Day's Collacon
The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
BRET HARTE
"The Outcasts of Poker Flat"
That the saints were usually in ill luck does not canonize you.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
Luck in all its moods had to be loved and not feared. Bond saw luck as a woman, to be softly wooed or brutally ravaged, never pandered to or pursued.
IAN FLEMING
Casino Royale
That is life, isn't it? Fate. Luck. Chance. A long series of what-if's that lead from one moment to the next, time never pausing for you to catch your breath, to make sense of the cards that have been handed to you. And all you can do is play your cards and hope for the best, because in the end, it all comes back to those three basics. Fate. Luck. Chance.
KELSEYLEIGH REBER
If I Fall
Data that comes subliminally and is acted upon will look like luck or inspiration.
PETER REDGROVE
The Black Goddess and the Unseen Real: Our Uncommon Senses and Their Common Sense